Imaginary Authors

Cape Heartache

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Damp Douglas fir, pine resin and hemlock with a vanilla leaf and a touch of strawberry, like mountain fog.

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The drawn Cape Heartache bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Cape Heartache’s scent picture, a draft: fir balsam, pine, vanilla, strawberry drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Cape Heartache, when you spray it: Fir balsam, Pine

As it settlesheart notes

Cape Heartache, as it settles: Western hemlock, Strawberry, Old growth, Mountain fog

What staysdry-down notes

Cape Heartache, what stays: Vanilla

What’s inside it

What the label names

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Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Y Le ParfumYSL · shares fir balsam and pine$198 for 100 ml · about the same as Cape Heartache’s $115
Gypsy WaterByredo · shares pine and vanilla$330 for 100 ml
Decision 42Amouage · shares pine and vanilla$550 for 100 ml · about twice Cape Heartache’s $115
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